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Sam Shepard
I could be your footman or your whore
I could be your meteor of war
I could be your beginning or your end
I could be anything except your friend
Do you want me to be Sam goddamn Shepard for you?
Cause I can damn sure be Sam goddamn Shepard for you.
Do you want it to be 1972, do you wanna hang out with my retinue? (with the Wrecking Crew?)
Cause I can damn sure be Sam goddamn Shepard for you.
I could be your answer or retort
I could be your court of last resort
I could be your confessor or your priest
I could be the lover you like least
I could be your victim or your prey
I could be some half-assed lousy lay
I could be your sunlight of your truth
I could be just one night in your youth
I don’t have a history or past
I don’t believe in love that’s made to last
I could be your first or eighty-eighth
I could be the restorer of your faith
I could be your daddy’s big, big boot
I could be your mama’s fascist brute
Mayor’s Brother
Got a dollar I can borrow?
I'll pay you back real soon.
Just need a ticket to tomorrow.
I'm a little short this afternoon.
I was head out to mama’s
when somebody jacked my whip
I got caught up in her dramas
And I lost my scholarship
Well, I am the mayor’s brother
I got friends on the inside
I got sideways with the others
Now I need a place to hide
The sun was blaring like a siren
Putting cancer in my eyes
I never heard the baby’s cryin’
Until I crossed the Bridge of Sighs
I thought about returniung
Down the barrel of a gun
I could smell the incense burning
And the demon told me run
A freighted set of obligations
I'm afraid I'm gonna break
I ain't taking any comfort
in the art for art's sake
Like a freighted net scraping bottom
in a cold dark lake
I'm an asymptomatic
carrier of heartbreak ...
When the Night Drinks Wine (song for Ellis)
(after Rumi)
When the Night drinks wine
Sometimes her sorrow shows
She says the Moon is a faithless lover
‘Cause he comes and goes
She’s jealous of the Day,
With her constant Sun,
Shedding light, warmth and satisfaction
Over everyone ....
But then Day gets bored
And prays for clouds and rain
A reprieve from the spotlight
To camouflage her pain
Some say the road is long
Some say it never ends
Some say it’s spinning like a mandala
Back where it begins
The Night is vast and wide
And deeper than the sea
And though it holds a hundred billion suns
It can feel empty
We are but motes of dust
Lost in infinity
But every little human heart
Has the capacity
To hold the universe
Encompass Day and Night
My neighbor told me love was limitless
And I God I hope he’s right
Some say the night is long
Some say it never ends
If we’re spinning like a mandala
You cantor forget your friends
So when the Night drinks wine
Remember all the days
When the moon shining like a mirror
And know it’s just a phase
Girls Who Swear
Long about 200,000 years ago
give or take a century
A caveman ridin’ in his Cadillac
cracked the mystery
He said ‘Some like girls with damn deep eyes
and yards of auburn hair;
there’s assholes who infantilize,
but I like girls who swear’
’Cause girls who swear don’t take no guff
or wear the frilly pink underwear
They’re not available for stupid stuff
like arranging your child care
Girls who swear are all grown up
They don’t care about your car
Girls who swear don’t give a flyin’ fuck
They like themselves the way they are
’Ol Chuck Berry was a handsome man
Brown-eyed and debonair
’Rounding third he come up with a plan
He wired up the Southern Air
You know he did, he wired up the Southern Air
And maybe it was 1965
It’s all the same to me
A cowboy ridin’ on a dinosaur
Come to Memphis, Tennesee.
He said. ‘Where this Elvis boy y’all been talking about?
I want to check his masculinity.
’Cause some boys they like other boys,
And some boys they like me,
You know they do,
Some boys they like me
Y’all can go on and be what you wanna be
Don’t pick my pocket or break my leg
If the answer’s ‘No,’ you gotta let it go,
You gotta be too proud to beg